books.google.com - "The essays contained in the present volume were first published in the English periodicals--chiefly the Quarterly Reviews. They contain ideas of permanent interest, and display an amount of thought and labor evidently much greater than is usually bestowed on review articles. They were written with a...https://books.google.com/books/about/Illustrations_of_Universal_Progress.html?id=rc5iy01Ruv4C&q=John+Herschel&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIllustrations of Universal Progress